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If you’re shopping for a password manager, one prominent product is LastPass. The company has had a turbulent history, however, which may lead you to wonder, is LastPass safe? Based on its poor track record of security problems, the short answer is

Setting up your own private email server puts your email infrastructure under your control. This can be great for privacy since it cuts out big email service providers like Gmail and Microsoft Outlook, which can access and misuse your data. On the o

After receiving suspicious bids in our original fundraiser, we’re putting the rare Proton username X back up for auction along with the X@ email address on all the Proton domains (proton.me, protonmail.com, protonmail.ch, and pm.me)! However this tim

After receiving suspicious bids in our original fundraiser, we’re putting the rare Proton username X back up for auction along with the X@ email address on all the Proton domains (proton.me, protonmail.com, protonmail.ch, and pm.me)! However this tim

Our annual Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser has once again brought in over half a million dollars that will help defend privacy and freedom around the globe. The 2023 raffle raised over $522,000 from over 50,000 tickets sold, while the auction of

As the year draws to a close, we want to take a moment to recap the massive changes Proton Pass, our encrypted password manager, has undergone in the past six months, and some of our plans for 2024. In just six months, the product has changed dramati

Last year, Big Tech companies (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft) received about $3.04 billion in fines for breaking laws on both sides of the Atlantic. As of seven days and three hours into 2024, they had already earned enough revenue to

With Microsoft’s rollout of the new Outlook for Windows, it appears the company has transformed its email app into a surveillance tool for targeted advertising. Everyone talks about the privacy-washing campaigns of Google and Apple as they mine your

Google has made sure that 2023 will go down as the year of privacy washing. It introduced a new “ad privacy feature” for Chrome in September, and now it’s broadened the release of the beta version of Ad Topics for Android (both part of its misleading

If you’re shopping for a password manager, one prominent product is LastPass. The company has had a turbulent history, however, which may lead you to wonder, is LastPass safe? Based on its poor track record of security problems, the short answer is

Setting up your own private email server puts your email infrastructure under your control. This can be great for privacy since it cuts out big email service providers like Gmail and Microsoft Outlook, which can access and misuse your data. On the o

Dropbox may have been the first mainstream cloud storage provider, but it’s no longer the best. It has a history of issues, from bugs in the interface to serious privacy and security problems. If you’re ready to switch providers, below we have instru

The biggest new threat to privacy in 2023 wasn’t any surveillance program. It was the false advertising Big Tech companies use to trick people into thinking their products are private. Like oil companies claiming fossil fuels are “green”, Google, Ap

If a web browser tells you you’re “incognito” and can “browse privately”, you might assume your online activities are private and no one is collecting your data. But you’d be wrong. It’s precisely this ambiguity that has landed Google in the crossha

In the public eye, Google presents itself as a champion of privacy. “Privacy is at the heart of everything we do,” its CEO said. But behind closed doors, Google is telling a different story to policymakers and actively fighting against privacy laws